Dianara is a pump.io client, an application for GNU/linux and other desktop systems that allows users to manage their Pump.io social networking accounts without the need to use a web browser, and provides several features not available in the standard web interface. Since it's a Pump client, you can use it also for GNU Mediagoblin sites. It is Free Software (Free as in freedom).

Here's a summary of the main things it can do at this point: Posting text with some formatting, uploading pictures, audio, video and other files, receiving and navigating the timelines, liking/commenting/sharing/deleting/editing posts, liking, editing and deleting comments, editing your profile, changing your avatar, changing your e-mail, following/unfollowing people and managing contacts and person lists.

You can run 2 or more instances of Dianara with different configurations, by using the "--config" command line parameter.

Dianara is available in Chakra, Mageia 4 and later, Debian 8 (Jessie) and later, Ubuntu 13.10 and laterKaosX, openSuse 13.2 and later, and Parabola's repositories.

If you're interested in translating it to your language, or helping update one of the existing languages that might be incomplete, let me know and check the TRANSLATING file. It's quite easy.

Last changelog:

v1.4.2 3 months ago

- Changed OK/Cancel buttons in several dialogs to follow environment style.
- Code refactoring and optimizations.
- Fixed a corner case where a post deleted by its author, while a comment was being composed, would block timeline updates until program restart.
- When a post is cancelled, abort possible ongoing file upload immediately.
- Fixed Cancel button being disabled while sending a comment.
- Fixed a pagination bug that would set the wrong page number if a timeline update had failed previously.
- Other minor fixes.

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I installed all the dependencies in the readme file and a few extra I think.
Also, maybe it's me but I had to do qmake and make in the Dianara directory, not the build directory as that was empty after creating it.

Hi!
Your problem is an older version of QJSON than the required 0.8.x.
Dianara 0.8 requires QJSON 0.8.x, but the good news is that Dianara 0.9, which I'll release soon, lowers this requirement to QJSON 0.7.x.

So, in summary, you can't compile Dianara now, unless you somehow upgrade QJSON, but you'll be able to compile it once v0.9 is out.

Cheers!

P.S.- the 'build' directory is empty, of course, because you just created it.
When you go into it and run 'qmake ..', a Makefile file should appear. Then you run 'make' to build the binary.

It's just a way to keep the main directory clean, but using a "build" directory is not a requirement ;)

v1.4.2 3 months ago

- Changed OK/Cancel buttons in several dialogs to follow environment style.
- Code refactoring and optimizations.
- Fixed a corner case where a post deleted by its author, while a comment was being composed, would block timeline updates until program restart.
- When a post is cancelled, abort possible ongoing file upload immediately.
- Fixed Cancel button being disabled while sending a comment.
- Fixed a pagination bug that would set the wrong page number if a timeline update had failed previously.
- Other minor fixes.

v1.4.1 1 year ago

- Ability to save and restore post drafts.
- Post publisher can grow much bigger.
- System notifications now include a button to show the program.
- Properly bring main window to the front when restoring from tray icon, and when clicking the "Show" button in a notification (depends on your WM).
- Fixes in the profile editor and image viewer.
- Other minor improvements.

v1.4.0 1 year ago

- The side panel can now be moved to any border of the window, by dragging its title bar, after unlocking the panels from the View menu.
- The toolbar can also be moved around, after unlocking.
- Files can be attached to a post via drag'n'drop from a file manager.
- Dragging text from a website to the post composer works better now.
- Several improvements in the formatting options of the post/comment editor.
- Auto-switch from Fit mode to Full mode in image viewer when using the mouse wheel.
- Finer zoom control.
- Posts with non-media attachments will show a matching icon from the user's icon theme, based on MIME type (i.e. PDF icon, TXT icon, etc).
- A proper file extension will be suggested when saving non-media attachments to disk.
- Added an option to set window as "requiring attention" to notify new posts, which usually results in the taskbar/dock entry being highlighted.
(Configuration > Notifications, enabled by default)
- Optional activity icons in the minor feeds.
(Configuration > Timelines, disabled by default)
- Several improvements in the account dialog.
- Building with Qt 4 is no longer supported.
- Removed libmagic dependency, since Qt 5 has methods for mimetypes.
- Removed QJSON dependency, since Qt 5 has methods to handle JSON.
- Fixed #41, accepting username@localhost as valid Webfinger ID, for testers.
- Handle new HTML-based error messages sent by server since Pump.io 4.0.
- Several cosmetic fixes.
- Other minor fixes.

v1.3.7 1 year ago

- Image viewer now supports dragging the image around with the mouse, zooming with the wheel, and rotating animated images correctly.
- Fixed case-insensitive sorting of contacts in auto-completion lists.
- Server version will be shown in the log.

v1.3.6 2 years ago

- HTTP redirections will be followed when loading images (Qt 5 only).
- Duration of popup notifications is now configurable, and notifications can be set to be persistent.
- Some input fields will show a button to clear them (Qt 5 only).
- Added Galician translation by EVAnaRkISTO.
- Other small fixes.

v1.3.5 2 years ago

- Items highlighted due to filtering rules will show the reasons for highlighting.
- After downloading an attachment, a button will appear, to open the file using the default program from the user's desktop environment.
- Added buttons to rotate images in the image viewer (Ctrl+Left/Right keys).
- Building with Qt 5 is officially supported now.
*** Note that your system will need a Qt 5 build of the QOAuth library. ***
- Some windows that used to block input to the rest of the program, such as posts opened from the Meanwhile feed, will be independent now.
- The color setting for highlighted items is now enabled by default.
- Several improvements in page selector.
- Fix corner case where timeline might update while a comment is being composed, destroying it (#35).
- Other minor fixes.

Older versions 7 years ago

1.3.4

- Automatic timeline updates will avoid interrupting the user.
- Different snippet limits for regular and highlighted activities.
- Snippets set to 'Always' by default.
- More detailed new post notifications.
- Clicking "Comment" in posts will show an option to check for comments, if the post doesn't have (or show) any comments yet.
- Filtering (searching) contact lists will show the number of matches.
- Items in the list of configured filtering rules can be sorted manually, via drag-and-drop.
- Fixed a possible crash when pasting a URL which points to an image.
- Updated a few links to Pump.io sites.
- Minor visual fixes and other improvements.

1.3.3

- When trying to follow a contact, the user ID is verified.
- The image viewer gained basic zoom capabilities.
- Timelines show thumbnails of embedded images, full size in the viewer.
- When pasting text in a post or comment, proper links will be made from URLs, even when the pasted text is rich format.
- Links created from the Format menu are verified to have a proper scheme.
- Post publisher area can grow bigger.
- Configurable avatar sizes in comments and minor feeds.
- Better error handling when timelines fail to load.
- Added AppData (AppStream) file.
- Fixed some size issues in comments.
- Other small fixes and improvements.